A kids perspective

I think it is interesting the way kids describe things. The other night, when Cinderella came in to tell me she needed to throw up, she told me her throat felt like it was doing "number salts." (Her word for summer salts). Then yesterday morning when I asked her how she felt, she told me her neck hurt. I asked her if it hurt like she needed to throw up. She said, "Like dust."

Garnishes, and flowers, and things

The other day Daddy was making dinner. I told the kids it was time to eat, so we headed to the kitchen. When we got there, Daddy was no where to be found. I asked Cinderella if she knew where Daddy was. She replied. "He is probably outside, picking garnishes, and flowers, and things."

The stomach bug

Last night, I had just fed Sleeping Beauty, gotten her back to bed, and drifted off to sleep myself, when I was woken up by Cinderella. I was only half awake, and asked what she needed. She told me she thought she was going to throw up. Well my mind told me I was still feeding the baby for some reason. So I called for Daddy, and he jumped out of bed and took her to the bathroom. By this time I was fully awake, and went to help her. Unfortunately for her, she had gotten sick. Daddy was kind enough to camp out on her floor, so that I could sleep except when the baby needed me.

This morning we were debating as to weather or not she is sick, or just has a case of food poisoning. We had been to my parents house on Monday for the holiday, and my grandmother who lives there had had some symptoms of a stomach bug. I didn't think anything of it. But when Cinderella got sick, I remembered that and wondered it she had gotten it from there. I mentioned this to my husband, and Cinderella asked me what a stomach bug is. I was trying to think of a way to describe it, when she said, "there was a fly that landed on me downstairs."

Favorite August Pictures

My little bably who grows so fast.

So Sleeping Beauty turned 4 months old yesterday. And she is getting big.

We have had a few days here and there that have been cooler, and so I have been trying to get a few outfits that are warmer clothes, so that we are prepared for when the weather gets cold. I was at Costco last week, and noticed they had their cooler weather clothes out. I have also noticed that this Costco sells out of the smaller sizes pretty quickly. So I bought about 7 outfits and 3 PJ's for Sleeping Beauty. I debated what size to get, because she grows so fast. A couple weeks ago she had reached the point where she could only wear the larger 3-6 month size clothes and the smaller 6-9. The brand I was looking at was Carters, which I sometimes find their sizes confusing. A few months ago, I had bought 4 long sleeved rompers in the 9 month size, which weight wise is 6-9 month sizing. When I got home, and compared them to the clothes I already had, I realized they were really 12 month size. Anyway so the other day, I was debating what size to buy. I picked up some 6 month size stuff, and held it up to her. It looked like it was bigger than she was. I then fished a undershirt out of my diaper bag, that was the size that she was growing out of and held it up to the size of the shirt I was looking at. The shirt I was looking at was a good amount larger. So I decided to go with the 6 month size. One of the outfits I had bought was a short sleeved/long pants outfit, and I put it on her today. When I was fastening it up, I had to stretch the shirt to get it to snap over the crotch. So then I was wondering if it was just that outfit. Nope, that one is the same size as all the other ones I bought. I then laid one of the rompers I had bought a while ago next to her on the floor, and it wasn't a whole lot larger than she is.

I don't mind her growing, and I think I have plenty of 12 month cooler weather clothes from when Cinderella was in that size, so I should be OK. I'm just frustrated that I bought, and laundered quite a few cooler weather outfits, that are really cute, that she quite possibly won't ever be able to wear.

So how do you know what size of clothes to get for the next season when you are shopping for babies? I never know when a growth spurt is going to hit.

Our new car

Out of the mouths of babes

Guy is always saying the funniest things. Here a just few of his latest ones.

The other day we were singing a song that goes:
"If you chance to meet a frown, do not let it stay, quickly turn it upside down and smile that frown away." This is a song that the kids sing at church. Often times there, they have a paper that has a face with a frowny face, and if you turn it upside down the face is smiling. Well Guy turned to me and said, "I can't turn my head upside down."

We were having dinner the other night, and Guy took a bite of his food before his dad could blow it. He turned to his dad with tears in his eyes and said, "I burnt my face off."


One day while driving in the car, Cinderella and Guy got in a disagreement. Cinderella got mad and told Guy that he was the "meanest Guy in the world." His reply was "I not in the world, I's in the car."